Social media platforms are constantly evolving and updating with newer features to increase relevance and stickiness for users, brands, and businesses. Here is our weekly roundup of Social Media News this week.

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Social media news this week was dominated by Instagram testing an option letting you run your existing Instagram shoppable posts as ads and working on a feature ‘Clips’, inspired by TikTok.

YouTube launches dedicated fashion content portal

YouTube has launched YouTube Fashion, a destination for style content on YouTube; it’ll feature original content from the industry. Read more here.

Instagram tests shoppable posts as ads

Instagram is testing an option that would let you run your existing Instagram shoppable posts as ads in Ads Manager. Read more here.